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snarky.

Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈsnɑɹ.ki/US/ˈsnɑː.ki/UK
  1. Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.

    humorous · informal · often
  2. Irritable, irritated.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From snark + -y; 1906, as “irritable”, from snark (“to snort”), by onomatopoeia (1866). Compare Low German snarken (“to snore”), North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka. In the sense “sarcastic” popularized in the late 1990s.

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